CityLite - for smarter and greener cities
An award-winning smart cities concept developed by Parametricos Ltd.
About
CityLite is a smart cities concept platform for smarter and greener cities. It was initially designed and developed in under 48 hours as part of our submission for the Cassini Hackathon - Digitising Green Spaces in June 2021.
The fast-paced work environment of the construction industry along with the lack of data during a project, forces most construction professionals to construct a project in a very short timeline. This practice emerges in isolation, with minimum consideration of the surrounding environment and the community the project will be in. CityLite is an open-source, smart cities platform for professionals in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC), that empowers their workflow in all phases of a project cycle.
CityLite is a centralised platform for gathering data from different sources such as satellites, 3D Building Information Modeling models (BIM), GIS and IoT devices for the user to simulate different urban scenarios for a better built environment.
CityLite is based on open-source software such as harpgl, ifcjs and threejs and others
Note: This software is experimental (WIP)
Demo
Try CityLite here!
Getting Started (with Demo)
There are three main actions on the CityLite demo at the moment:
- Load a BIM model on the map by uploading your own IFC file and geolocate it with coordinates
- Upload a GIS (GeoJson) source and create a layer to visualise it
- Simulate the sun and shadows by selecting the calendar on the top right
Contribution
There's a few ways to contribute to this project and improve it:
- Fork the project repository and make your first pull request
- Submit sample Satelite Images (TIF), BIM Models (IFC), a square thumbnail image and the project's location
- Test it and create Issues in github so that we can start working on them
Please feel free to contact us about contributing at [email protected] or send us a message on Linkedin, Twitter & Instagram
Join our Community
Ask us to invite you to our Slack Channels or join our newly created community on Discord
Using the library
Developed
CityLite was part of a submission to Cassini Hackathon in 2021. CityLite is developed and maintained by Parametricos Ltd.. CityLite and was open sourced in the name of BIM, GIS and it's community! On the 26th of May 2021 we open sourced our first package BCF-js which was part of the Studio 3DX.
License
CityLite is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. Please read the LICENSE file in this repository for more details.
